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Kamis, 13 Oktober 2011

Hopefully Crazy Plot To Bomb Iran's True

The wild story published by the Department of Justice about a plot to assassinate Iran smells suspiciously like something that passes through the digestive tract of a bull. However, the U.S. should expect that to be true. Because Iran is fiercer look like idiots blithering terrorist organization.

According to the criminal complaint filed against Mansour and Gholam Arbabsiar Shakuri Tuesday, agents of the Qods Force of Iran feared, a branch of the jungle Buck-buck-wild and Revolutionary Guards, conspired to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States in Washington, DC You could go to the Embassy of Israel to raise hell. And if the idea of starting a regional war - the most likely outcome of the murder of Iranian diplomats rivals in the Middle East, on American soil, no less - not enough, the Qods Force have searched for a breakthrough with Mexican cartels of drugs.

It's a salad bar fusion safety concerns of the United States. Mad Iranian terrorists and violent Mexican drug traffickers. No wonder that FBI Director Robert Mueller called the plot straight out of Hollywood.

But here's what you should expect it really came down to the government describes how difficult it is to believe.

Entities spun narrative police report, a naturalized U.S. citizen, Arbabsiar, approached by a man from Mexico who was believed to be linked to "a large and violent drug cartel sophisticated traffic" in the spring of 2011. Arbabsiar, who boasted that his cousin was a big cheese, the Iranian military units, was willing to pay a guy $ 1.5 million to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador Adel Al-Jubair. Two men had never met before.

What Arbabsiar did not know was that his party was paid for the reporting agent is the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Arbabsiar claiming to be in favor of his cousin, the Qods force bigwig Shahlai Abdul Reza, Mexico, wired cash. It 'went straight to the bank account to guide the FBI.

If any of this is remotely true, crack Qods Force intelligence work is amazing to watch. Mexican informant reported Arbabsiar calls. They reveal some code words ridiculously bland. Icing is called al-Jubair, "painting houses" - Arbabsiar fixed points for his partner, that could leave the house in mid paintings - and himself al-Jubair was the "Chevrolet".

This leak is suspected to be operating, when he called in Mexico in September, will be arrested at the airport. Arrested, Arbabsiar cracked, and accused the Qods Force, the plot. U.S. officials also had to call his cousin Arbabsiar Enforcer Shakur and participate. "You mean that you buy all the [Chevrolet]?" Shakur said, presumably wheeler-dealer in the same Qods Force.

Qods Force, is not a joke - or until you release the police report, it was hard to think of it as a joke. U.S. accused of smuggling of deadly bombings in Iraq (although sometimes without much evidence). As Thomas Jocelyn Weekly Standard points out, the Qods Force - and in particular Shahlai - was behind one of the most sophisticated and brazen attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq during the war, the ambush is the establishment of Karbala. It is believed to be responsible for the formation and financing of terrorist proxies of Iran, especially Hezbollah.

Which raises the obvious question: why are so sophisticated organization with ties to known terrorists, the risk of creating a new kind of partnership with an unknown group of Mexican drug with such stakes are high? Many have speculated that the land described in the complaint can not be true - or that Shakur was not operational Qods Force, the Iranian government or older knew outlandish plot. "Quds are better than this," former CIA agent Robert Baer told the Washington Post. "If you want to come after you, you were already dead."

Maybe. But let's give the government the benefit of the doubt. If the story really came down to what the government claims, then the most feared army of Iran / intelligence arm looks like a bunch of buffoons miscalculations. And these are the people, David Petraeus, said that the Iranian regime is based on the growing Iranian influence across the Middle East. Calculation error is really dangerous in foreign policy. However, United States - and Jubair - may be able to find solace in the fact that nine out of ten times, incompetence is much worse.

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Pale Blue Points: Iconic Images From Space

Dozens of cameras circle of the Planet Earth documentary in detail, but few that offer a view of the world.

The handful of rare visions have shown that "the Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena," wrote the late Carl Sagan in Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the future of humanity in space.

Robotic probes for most of the photos of the Earth and the Moon on its way to the planets, asteroids, comets and even other star systems. However, the practice of taking self-portraits warming is seldom artistically motivated.

"In general, we can do to calibrate instruments and verify the trajectory of a spacecraft. If the point where they think the Earth is and see, then you are probably where you think you are," said planetary scientist Mark Sykes of the Planetary Science Institute.

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Selasa, 11 Oktober 2011

Astronomers Find Planets Difficult Decade Of Age, Data From The Hubble

In a careful analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope images in 1998, astronomers have found visual evidence of the two exoplanets, have gone unnoticed at the time.

Finding these hidden gems Hubble archive to provide astronomers with a valuable comparison of the time machine, much earlier than the planet's orbital motion data to new discoveries. It also demonstrates a new approach to the hunting world for the storage of the Hubble data.

Four giant planets known to orbit the massive young star HR 8799, which is130 light years. In 2007 and 2008 the first three planets have been discovered in infrared images taken near the ground with the WM Keck Observatory and the Gemini North telescope by Christian Marois, the National Research Council of Canada and his team. Marois and his colleagues found nearby planet fourth in 2010. It is the only system that astronomers have obtained exoplanetary multiple images directly.

In 2009, David Lafrenière, University of Montreal, exoplanet data retrieved hidden in the Hubble images taken in 8799 of HR 1998 with the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). He identified the position of the outermost known planet of the star's orbit. That first demonstrated the power of a data processing technique for the recovery of new minor planets buried in the brightness of the star.

A reanalysis of the same data archival NICMOS by Remi Soumen the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore has recovered all three outer planets. The fourth closest planet is 1.5 billion miles from the star and is not visible because it is on the edge of the NICMOS corona graphic spot that blocks light from the central star.

Finding planets in multiple images, spread over the years, the orbits plotted. Knowledge of the pathways are crucial for understanding the behavior of multi-planet, because massive planets can affect each other orbits. "From the Hubble images, we can determine the shape of their orbits that provide an overview of the stability of the planet masses and eccentricities, and also the inclination of the system," says Soumen.

These results are published in the Astrophysical Journal.

The three gas giant outer planets is about 100 -, 200 - and 400-year orbit. This means that astronomers have to wait long to see how the planets move along their path. The added time to the Hubble data will help greatly. "The file has been 10 years of science right now," he said. "Without these data, we would have to wait another decade. It's 10 years of science for free."

However, the slower the movement, the outer planet, has just become the station for 10 years. "But if we go to the next inner planet, rarely seen in orbit, and the third inner planet, we will actually see a lot of movement," says Soummer.

The planets were observed in 1998, when Hubble's observations were the first taken since the method used to detect them is not available at this time. When astronomers reduce the light from the star center to search for the afterglow of the planets, the scattering of light was even more planets remaining weak.

Lafrenière developed a way to improve this type of analysis using a library of reference stars more precisely to eliminate the "fingerprint" of the central star light. The team took Soumm Lafrenière method one step further and use 466 images of the stars of a reference library with more than 10 years of NICMOS observations assembled by Glenn Schneider of the University of Arizona.

Soummer team increased the contrast and minimize the rest of the Starlight. They completely removed from the diffraction peaks, which are the objects common to the imaging systems of the telescope. This allowed them to see two poor inner planets, the Hubble data. Planets recovered from NICMOS data are about 1 / 100, 000 brightness of the parent star, when viewed in the near infrared.

Soumen next plans to analyze about 400 other stars in the NICMOS archive with the same technique that improves image quality by a factor of 10 of the imaging methods used where data were collected.

Soummer work shows the power Hubble Space Telescope data archive, which houses the images and spectra of more than twenty years, the Hubble observations. Astronomers use this library to integrate the new discoveries with a lot of valuable information already collected, resulting in a lot of opportunities for the discovery of new experience.

NICMOS data team will meet Soumm file a list of candidates worldwide to be confirmed by ground-based telescopes. If the planets are discovered, they will have several years to measure the orbital motion.

Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is implementing the Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., Washington, DC

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Senin, 03 Oktober 2011

Mattresses Facebook Malware Protection

Facebook has cemented a new partnership to protect its users against malicious links posted on their walls, new son, and other places in the social network. You know, these links from someone you have not seen for years, to encourage you to click on the images of how "WAZ you sooo mad at the party last night" or some of them. Click one and you could offer all sorts of nasty things to your account and even your hard drive.

Facebook will now use Websense to suppress a little tighter, adding the company "Advanced Classification Engine" on the rear end. When a user clicks on a link in Facebook, it is the ACE, who lives in the clouds, and is constantly new threats. If the CAE has already classified the site as a threat, it sends a warning to the user.

ACE is the same technology behind TRITON security suite used by many companies, so it's fast enough to return to new bugs and malicious campaigns and rank, but that does not mean it will be fast enough to catch all the bad link on Facebook, until a few users to click.

A link that goes viral is a social network can often spread faster than any other - and the link to the virus when it also happens to be the access of the virus to the list of friends and reset itself without your permission, may soon to be found anywhere. The good news is, the faster it spreads, the faster the ACE are likely to collect and classify it as miserable.

Facebook hopes that with the addition of a new security partnership with the current arsenal of defense to reduce the window of vulnerability - the time between when a threat to the cultivation, and when it was identified, cataloged, and the warnings go out.

Facebook was not completely naked, before integrating the Websense service. It has its own security systems, and has developed deals with the likes of McAfee in the past. Websense has also provided the Facebook application called Defensio, which provides filtering and control the content posted on the walls of the Users', for some time.

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You've never seen the sun like this before! NASA Satellite Shows Incredible Detail Boiling Sun

It is a view of the sun like no other. These beautiful images show the inner workings of our hot stars in a way that no human eye could expect to detect.

Mesmerizing images, taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO satellite show the sun's energy thrown out wavelengths invisible to the human eye, such as X-rays and ultraviolet light. He gave us a new understanding of how a star.

Images of clarity means that SDO will feedback to the NASA Earth broader scientific data on the sun than any other spacecraft. Every day sends 1.5 terabytes of data, equivalent to 500 000 songs on an MP3 player.

Some images show details never seen the broadcast equipment to the outside and away from sunspots. Other shows close-ups of the activity on the solar surface.

The satellite was launched in February 2010 and Chief Scientist Dean Pesnell said he has already reshaped our theories about how a star works - and to allow an overview of the recent activity of violence on the surface of the star.

During his five-year mission, will examine the sun's magnetic field and provide a better understanding of the role of the Sun on Earth's climate.

It determines how the Sun's magnetic field is generated and converted to violent solar events such as the solar wind turbulence.

The hope is to help researchers learn SDO solar flares can damage communications satellites and power supplies.

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in February 2010.

It is a five-year mission that is expected to cost $ 855million.

Spacecraft, in orbit 22 000 miles above the town, is a 7.2ft by 14.8ft.

The solar panels are around 21ft and produces 1450W of power.

Instruments on board have add-on armor, as it is within the limits of the radiation belt of the Earth where the levels are quite high.

The spacecraft carries three instruments for ultra-high-resolution images of the sun every minute.

It is also able to study the solar pressure waves generated in its surface.

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Minggu, 02 Oktober 2011

How Could The Great Fire Of Kindle Tables 7 Inches

Steve Jobs made it clear what he thought of seven-inch tablet in October 2010. They are "too small" and as good as "dead on arrival." But the announcement of the tablet and the anticipation Amazon Kindle the fire may soon have jobs to eat his words.

If you lived under a rock, and have not heard the news, Amazon launched its $ 200 7-inch tablet, light the fire this week. Make no mistake: it is not IPAD. There is no camera facing or rear facing and has only 8 GB of storage space.

But it is not intended as an IPAD. It's a completely different kind of pills that are designed to clean the consumer. In other words, it is designed for breast health behaviors: reading, listening to music, watching video content. The lack of local storage is not a problem either, it is designed to take advantage of cloud computing services from Amazon, such as $ 80 per year of service first, and the reader Amazon cloud. And small form factor allows additional portable, easy to whip on the bus or subway (much like a Kindle.)

"With a 7 inch unit, you can easily take your Kindle with fire and you keep it in hand for games and movies to see" Amazon representative Kinley Campbell said by e-mail.

UX design consultant Greg Nudelman believes that a 7-inch tablets could become as popular as the larger 9.7 and 10.1-inch tablets ", but the applications and the length of the link between use and can be very different."

The iPad, although portable, is more difficult to handle with one hand thanks to its large size. And while it is certainly directed toward consumer behavior, IPAD is also trying to break the barrier-mobile PC to become a tool for creating, with programs like iMovie and GarageBand iPad iPad allows users to produce content rather have passively. If you really achieved that or not is subjective (some scoff at the limited capacity of GarageBand), but it is possible and probable that requests of this nature are in the pipeline (or products from third countries).

Amazon's decision to debut small tablet was probably influenced the current operators in the tablet market. 7-inch area of least resistance, DisplaySearch said Richard Shim. Its direct competition is likely to Barnes & Noble Nook color, which also serves as Android touts and a similar form factor as the Apple iPhone.

This is exactly what fueled speed, the creators of the 7-inch tablet running Android Cruz to select the size. "We wanted to avoid comparisons with face-to-head IPAD 10 inches - ours is a very different product that goes after a different audience," says marketing manager Josh Covington.

The small size also allowed the Amazon more easily take a bath with a lower price, just over 7 inches tablet manufacturers must follow to remain competitive. Take HTC, which has lowered the price of its 7-inch tablet Flyer a $ 499 iPhone an affordable amount increased to 299.

Samsung has also jumped on the hype, the use of the card Galaxy Plus 7.0 on Friday. If Samsung can handle the same price, the fire could be another legitimate competitor.

And if it crosses your mind, a 7-inch tablet would be something that Apple probably never start. Apple has had great success with its 9.7-inch iPhone, which launched shortly after beginning to put aside their strong sales and continued ever since. If this does not change for any reason, there is no need for Apple iPhone will launch a small, economically speaking.

Nor is Apple's DNA. Since Steve Jobs, to jump on board with Apple in the late 90s, Apple's success has hinged on innovation, rather than riding on the heels of the reaction of consumers successfully in markets that do not have Take a presence in the market for netbooks, for example: Rather than launch a netbook, Apple introduced the MacBook Air, and then, of course, the iPad.

Part of what prevented the success of the 7-inch tablet, so far, is that they are perceived to be superior to the oversized mobile phone as a tablet, "and that seems to be the heel of Achilles 'mini-pills,'" said Nudelman .

But the genius of the fire is that it is more closely identified with the e-reader from Amazon, online popular smart phones, so it has a definite place in the mind of the user. And now that Amazon has made this distinction clear, the other 7-inch tablet can charge at least try to take advantage of that extra angle of portable media consumption, rather than marketing them in the iPad.

Fire is the dismissal of iPad large tablets and a large screen smartphones, as well as in size and function, helping to ensure a solid niche for any other compressed 7-inch monitor.

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Sabtu, 01 Oktober 2011

PC Games; Rage (2011/ENG/MULTI3) [STEAM PRE-LOAD]

Description:

When humanity was threatened with destruction from the collision of Earth with a giant asteroid, the leaders of all nations agreed to create a special ark, where elected officials have found refuge deep beneath the surface of the planet ... They have to restart life on Earth, after the danger has passed. You have a favorite. Years after the disaster sheet was opened, and you find yourself in a world that is much different than before. But most important - not all residents are looking forward to your return. You must learn to fight and survive. Remember that time is very low - the bandits, mutants and even local authorities are already under way.

Features:

Shooting and explosions. Destroy the thugs and mutants first person mode, using a variety of models of weapons, including boomerangs, towers portable, robotic, radio controlled cars and watch the explosives.

Herbie: Fully Loaded. Fight to drive your own car that is perfect for traveling over rough terrain and is equipped with powerful weapons. Improve and paint his "iron horse" to install a new weapon - check yourself in battle with the bandits and mutants who do not know mercy.

At a crossroads. Understand the twists and exciting story of the campaign, a team with friends in co-op, or join a multiplayer battle hot.

Something for everyone. RAGE is not limited to fight in a first person and shoot cars. World, survived a disaster, is open for research: to expect with colorful characters, quests, and, of course, a fascinating history.

Post-apocalyptic beauty. New game engine, id Tech 5 is optimized to reconstruct the landscape on the screen is excellent and highly detailed with maintaining the same number of frames per second in both static and dynamic.

System requirements:

- Operating system: Windows XP / Vista / Seven;

- Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad or AMD equivalent production

- Memory: 4GB

- Graphics Card: GeForce 9800 GTX, ATI Radeon HD 5550

- Free hard drive space: 25 GB